We have been asked to publish the following appeal Right in the heart of China, at the juncture of the Yangtze with its largest] tributary, stand three great cities, Wuchi Havkow and Hanyang. Nowhere in the Empire can be found finer centre for the distribution of religious literature through the length and breadth of the lan. cognizing this fact, the resident Prot Missionaries, sixteen yours ags, for cally prepared tooth powder, antacid, parasitic ard slightly alkaline, it penetrates to the hidden flaws and crevices of the teeth where decay originates, removes (attar, polishes and preserves the enamel, provens and arrests decay and sweetens the breath; is free from neid or gritty ingreclients.' Rownanps' Essence or Tyne dyes red of grey hair a permanent brown or Gack, 4s. Ask dealers in perfumery for Rowzanps' articles.
Tract Society, whose growth in the interval been very remarkable.
During 1889 the Suciety sid upwards of a million booklets, and the year 1890 surpassed even this huge circulation. Success brought its own penalty; books suld under cost price involved "total loss pro portionate to success. During 1891 the So ity was compelled to restrict its issue largely to tracts sold at, or very slightly \der, the cost of production, The result was a reduced but still magnificent sale of three quarters of a million, and a thoroughly satisfactory condition of Buauee.
There was every prospect, wil the continued generous help of the Religious Pract Suciety of London, of increasing the area and number of its publications. Some thirty Missionary Societies purchase and sell its bucks, from British Columbii Singapore, from California to Austral from Manchuria to Burma. Hunan lies at our doors, The famous and infamous placards of the last eighteen months are avowedly n counterblast ut the Society's tracts. "If the truth is to conquer the foul-nese of error, we must combine to print and publish; if Hunan is to be opened to the gospel, we must be ready to stem the issuing stream by an inflow of pure litera ture.
We were cheerfully 1c king forward to the task before us, when on the morning of January 12th, a fierce fire in Hankow totally destroyed the Society's Depot. and stock. Our loss is sume $1,500 or £250, and we have no means to meet it. We must renew our stock xt once. Missionaries by the score are waiting for our books The vile tracts of Hunan xre circulating by the tens of thousands; we must continue our work of disseminating the truth. But burnt stock and an empty purse are stern facts. We feel that we can confidently appeal to the Christian public for help. We wre unsectarian and cosmopolitan, Our American and Soandinnevery section of the Protestant church, Will friends listen to our appeal, and by speedy help in prayer and money, restore sur Depot, replenish our stuck, and bid us Godspeed' in a fresh and more daring effort Signed—Guerra Jou, D.D., London Mission.
Tuomas Braurirr, Wesleyan Mission, Joux Ancurparn, Nat. Bible Society of Scotland, F. E. Luxp, Swedish Mission, Tuowas Eves, Chino Inland Mission, MoNatr, Secretary and Tieasurer, Hankow, 19th January.
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